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Sunday, 23 January 2011

Right then, here’s a little treat for you, a live four track download of songs from Work In Progress; Hell Is Other People, This Chaos, Creation and Strychnine all recorded live @ Lock 42 in Leicester on 12th Dec 2010. An ideal companian for those who’ve already bought the album, and a taster for those who really should get hold of a copy. Enjoy!Thanx to the original gig taper and torrent uploader, where I got the tracks from.

I have decided to boycott my local (in)convenience store….In the last couple of months it’s been robbed and as a result the owner has imposed a ban on Hats, Caps and Hoods being worn in the shop, because obviously anyone sporting headwear is a potential robber, even those like myself who he knows by name and sight. When he told me about the new rule, I said slightly taking the piss that he was infringing on my Human Rights, by telling me what I can or can’t wear in his shop. I suppose the key words are…. his shop, and he was within his rights to take this action , and if the customer isn’t happy with his totalitarian stance then they can choose to shop elsewhere, which is what I’ve decided to do for a while. His reasoning behind asking/telling everyone including regulars to remove their headwear was that if he asked someone he didn’t recognise to take off theirs, and there was a regular customer with a hat or hood on , it could create conflict, as to why there was one rule for one and one for another, which is fair comment, but I argued that all he had to do was say that he knew the person with the hat/hood, but he didn’t know the other person. Slightly unfair maybe, but hey as we know life can be unfair, and as a regular spender in his shop for the past however many years I feel he’s taking the piss. How the enforcement is going I don’t know, but I was walking past the shop the other day and I saw a rather disgruntled local with a cap on standing outside talking rather crossly to someone about “…that Fucking (I’m not gonna name the shop keeper) won’t serve me because I said I wouldn’t take my hat off, and he knows who I am.” Looks like the owner was right about one thing….It would create conflict!

I imposed a partial media blackout upon myself last week, well I watched and read less of the news, but there were a couple of things I picked up on:1) NHS, The sacred cow is gonna be slaughtered, or at least cut into bite size chunks for the Private Sector to chew up and then spit into the face of the public, and call it choice. I mean look at the fuck ups with the NHS after hours Doctors services, when Agency Doctors covered shifts and killed people! Competition For Care is not healthy, when people will get no real choice, just what is available at the cheapest cost.2)Tony Blair and The Chilcott Enquiry. How much of our money has been spent on finding out the truth, yeah right….We know the truth, it was an illegal war founded on lies. The only way this is ever gonna be money well spent is if Blair is tried for war crimes and found guilty.3)The News Of The World phone taping scandal that has seen Andy Coulson former editor of the paper resign from his role as head of government communications, because of the allegations of taping celebrities phone conversations when he was the papers editor. He had to go, I mean, if he was prepared to go that far to feed peoples hunger for the cult of celebrity and increase sales of the paper, what would he be caperable of when wheeling and dealing for the Government.

Sunday, 16 January 2011

It’s been a long while since I’ve posted any Clash stuff, so here we go with a copy of Kinston Advice, a bootleg CD released in 2004 by Kombat Records, and a fine affair it is to. Recorded on Nov 27th 1982 at The Jamaican World Musical Festival. It was The Clash’s last gig of that year, and the last one Terry Chimes played with the band, it was also the only time they played in Jamaica, with the band playing a more Reggae/Groove heavy set. They went on in the early hours of the morning, the sun rose as they finished their set, which goes someway to explain the slightly frazzled set, that and the fact that Joe and Mick had been tripping on magic mushrooms while watching Gladys Knight and The Pips performance the previous night. Enjoy it here! (The Clash, not Gladys Knight that is) The gig has been released as several bootlegs, but all apart from this one have ommited I Fought The Law. While I’m on the subject of The Clash, I seem to remember someone wanted the 1978 Ant-Nazi League gig at Victoria Park re-posted, which has been done, just take a trip to the original post by clicking here for a new link.

It doesn’t have to be this way. If the profiteers all down the line from production, supply and retail, all took a little less profit then the prices wouldn’t have to rise so much.Economic growth to get out of recession, If the recession is more moral than financial, surely the best way out is through not buying any more stuff.A fundamental shift in peoples thinking and what they value, is what we need . The Top Shop and Vodaphone protesters know the score, and so do some of the students. Chucking fire extinguishers off the roof of Tory Towers probably wasn’t the best thing to do, could have killed a policeman, I aint got much time for the Soldiers Of The State, but they’re only pawns in the game, as they are gonna find out in the coming years when the cuts bite and the tension rises, are we gonna be seeing specialised private security forces being called in to control future protests, cos the police have had to make cut backs. As for the sentence the guy received? A bit excessive when compared with some convictions for knife crimes and even sexual assaults, still it’s all about making an example of someone, as I’m sure they will out of some of the 200+ who’ve been arrested so far. Another thing....Police kill a person at G8 protest, no charges. Protester doesn't kill Policeman and gets a custodial sentence.What else has been happening over the last week? Floods, nature shows once again who’s the boss! all the stuff people have or don’t have means shit when it comes to the forces of nature. Then there was the attempted assassination of US Politician and the subsequent shooting dead of six people. A result of aggressive US Republican Politics? Most definitely! that and an availability of guns, and someone prepared to just do it. Troubles in Tunisia, triggered by a fruit and veg seller who set himself on fire and died in a public protest against having his stock confiscated by the authorities because he was selling it illegally. Violent protests on the streets followed and the countries un democratic leader fled. Just think....If the authorities had had a fire extinguisher!

None of the above is new news, all that sort of shit has gone on years and years ago, it’s just the time, places and faces that change, the events and struggles across the world stay the same! It’ all part of humankind and natures endless cycle. The past becomes the future, then the future becomes the past, and the world keeps turning.If people wanna Stop the world! and get off to look for a different future, then they need to change, or are the majority happy to go along with the(ir) ride, no matter what the cost!

Saturday, 15 January 2011

I’ve been sitting here in front of this PC for a good few hours with the stereo on playing a few albums:(UK SUBS - Work In Progress, SOCIAL DISTORTIONS - Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes, THE CLASH - Kingston Advice, THE VIBRATORS - Punk Rock Rarities, and ELECTRIC RIVER - Radio No Go.) taping away at the keyboard, cutting and pasting preparing a couple of posts I was gonna post today. But ….I keep getting distracted, drifting off and subsequently forgetting what I was trying to say. I think might be overdosing on Rock’n’Roll.

Sunday, 9 January 2011

Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes is Social Distortions first album in a good few years. Has it been worth the wait, and does it stand up to Singer/Guitarist Mike Ness’s idea of wanting it to sound like The Black Crows meeting The Dead Boys? Too damn right, guilty on both counts! Take it away….It’s big and bold. Crashing Guitars, Pianos and Gospel singers grace Mike Ness’s South Cal drawl and confessional lyrics, and take their ‘Outlaw Rock’ to a new level, but never leaving behind their Punk roots. Mike is one of Rock’n’Rolls real survivors, and also one of the most under ratted songwriters. It took over 30 years for the band to appear on US Television. A wrong that was righted last year when they preformed Machine Gun Blues the first single from this album on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Is this the best Social Distortion album? I dunno, but it is one of the best Rock’n’Roll records I’ve heard for a long while! It’s been on heavy rotation in the Wolf Den this weekend. Thanx to the Mad/Bad Ne….(No best not in case I get him in to trouble) for passing this on to me, unfortunately I aint gonna post it, you’ll have to go and buy it if you wanna hear it or find another leaked copy, but instead how about Four live versions, recorded in Offenbach, Germany 2009 of songs on the new album? Three of them You Can’t Take It With You , Alone and Forsaken, and Still Alive are from the physical CD release and one, I Won’t Run Anymore is from the Itunes Download version. Check ‘em out live and in the raw here! and the albums out on Epitaph Records on Jan 17th. Buy Bye!

Tuesday, 4 January 2011

We are being told how to think. The Government are using big business to help shape their policies and agenda, we have been under bombardment by new initiatives recently, all with the aim of changing the way we think.This new Pension scheme the government plans to roll out, were everyone will be signed up for it, unless they choose to opt out., why can’t people choose whether they want to join, I’ll tell you why; It’s because they want our money, and they’ve made people so worried about financial security in their old age that people will let the choice be made for them, rather than decide for themselves.The Food industry are talking about giving out free vouchers to encourage healthy eating, yeah and healthy spending on products.Top Shop who are owned by Phillip ‘government advisor on saving money while not paying tax himself’ Green, are giving vouchers to school children, if they walk to school. Asda are reducing the prices of some of their furniture, to encourage families to buy a kitchen table so they can eat meals together.The drinks industry in a bid to reduce ‘binge drinking’ are introducing a new unit of alcohol measurement; 2/3rds of a pint, apparently it’s how you can buy it in Australia.Donating to charity government are talking to banks to see if it can be done at cash machines. Organ donations, talking about it being suggested to all new drivers who pass their test that they might consider donating their organs for transplants when they die.Volunteering, I haven’t heard this mentioned yet but….How long before the 600,000 people who’ve had their Jobseekers allowance sanctioned, because they have refused or been unable to find work are given the option of ‘Volunteering’ in order to start receiving their benefits again?All these things are an example of something called ‘Nudge Theory’, were by people are given a nudge into making decisions that they might not have made if it had been left down to their own free will.Are people so stupid that they don’t know what decisions to make about their lifestyles if they want change them without having to be coerced and manipulated, or should I say nudged into making them? Wait up….best not answer that, cos if the answers yes then that gives weight to this whole idea of ‘Choice Architecture’ and if the answer’s No, because people are quite happy to live their lives however they want to then that gives weight to the thought that the government are building a new society on the foundations of fascism, were there’s only one way, their way! and if you don’t do it their way and for example you need Health care, it could be denied to you. Once again who pays? We do, because How much money have people got to pay into pension plans, to spend on healthy food, andthe only reason they can afford to drink is because the price of alcohol is so cheap in the very supermarkets that are gonna be promoting healthy lifestyles. Anyway it could be argued that many of these so called Social ills that this government wants to put right are a consequence of previous governments policies that have seen the family unit breakdown, people working longer and more unsocial hours in order to finance the lifestyles they’ve been sold and that they bought into and drinking to excess because they aint really happy and want to escape the grim reality of living a false life. The cost of their Free market capitalism is the price of our freedom. I wonder if it’s gonna be worth the price? Are people gonna change into ‘responsible’ citizens over the next say 10 years, were we’re living in their utopian dream of a caring sharing ‘big society’ or are we gonna be living in a dystopian nightmare where if you don’t conform to their way of thinking, you’re not gonna be nudged, but beaten into submission…..Think about it!

Monday, 3 January 2011

In a bid to bring you something new and different to all you good people that visit this blog, here’s a blast of something from 2003. It’s a band called The Rocks, with a blast of some Fucked Up Funked Up Punk Rawk, which creeps and crawls into yer brain until yer foot starts taping. We Got It is reminiscent of the New York No Wave scene of 1978. The Bomb and Save The Wolf are far more lo-fi Rock‘n‘Roll, anyway hear it for yerselfs here. ENJOY OR DESTROY!

2011 = ????They say it’s gonna be a ‘difficult year’ Who for? Them or Us, well that’s down to us, but I can’t see it being that difficult for them with their cushions of capital to recline on in their million pound mansions.If we believe what we’re being told, we’re gonna die in some flu pandemic or be blown up by terrorists, and if we don’t then we may live to 100, which means we better start saving for our future, well that’s what they’re telling us, but It’s not our future they’re thinking of, it’s theirs ….They need our money to fund the country. Once you start paying into their pension funds, it becomes theirs to invest in whatever, wherever, and I bet when it’s time to get it back, there’ll be less of it than there was.Still if we wanna sit back comfortably and watch the shit hit the fan in glorious HD Technolcolour best get down the sales and invest in a new TV and leather reclining sofa before the 20% VAT increase kicks in.Like I said same shit….They just want our money and keep theirs! Unless we make it difficult for them!

Here’s a review from the now defunct Sounds music mag, a gig advert and my ticket stub from a 1987 gig by THE GODFATHERS. One of the smartest and sharpest guitar bands ever. Back in the day these guys rocked; Like The Heartbreakers meeting Eddie and The Hot Rods on a South London housing estate. I’ve posted this ephemera for no other reason than I’ve just been listening to their Shot At The 100 Club release, a live recording of their 25th anniversary show back in June of last year, and….maan! they still rock! This Damn Nation, Birth School Work Death and I Want Everything are lyrically as relevant now as they were in the dark days of Thatcher, musically….well great Rock‘n‘Roll never ages, but the idea that music can politicise people seems to have died a death. Perhapes in 2011 we’ll see it resurrected and people will start “Biting the hand that doesn’t feed them”

Saturday, 1 January 2011

Happy New Year.... I say New Year, but it’s only a new year if we make it a new year. If we don’t then it’s another year, the same as any other year, different numbers that will add up to it being just another year full of the same old shit !

KEEPING THE BLOG FIRES BURNING!

SEALED WITH A KISS!

BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

SOLIDARITY!

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BANG, BANG ! The writings on the wall....

....but the Great Wall of China aint gonna be long enough to line all the Mutha Fuckers up against!

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I DON'T GIVE A SHIT WHAT YOU HAD FOR YOUR BREAKFAST OR DINNER!

The Instagram Stazi informants share every aspect of their lives with fellow twittering facebook 'friends' millions starve while millions show each other what they had to eat.

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This Note Pad Says....

FIGHT THE POWER

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“Many palaces have tumbled, many walls have been knocked down, and many more will fall, many more will lose the ground. They’ll pretend to understand and they’ll make a few amends but we’ve seen it all before and we’re not taking it again....RISE UP!"

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....on Easy Action Records, Johnny Thunders sublime 1983 acoustic album Hurt Me. Includes a free bonus disc of the albums showcase gig in London (Click on image for more details.)

CHECK THIS SHIT OUT! Before The Blog there was The Band THE DRUG PROWLING WOLVES

“Trust, faith, good, bad...non of it matters. All you ever do is what you have to do. Follow your desires, fulfil your needs, escape from pain. That's all there is to it.” - Kevin Brooks.

"Things you use; things you possess, and are possessed by; things you build with - bricks, words. You build houses with them, and towns, and causeways. But the buildings fall, the causeways cannot go all the way. There is an abyss, a gap, a last step to be taken." - Ursula Le Guin.

FUK U PUTIN!

POWER TO THE PUSSY!

FUCK THEIR OLYMPIC DIAMOND JUBILEE FLAG FEST!

If it is what it is, then why is it what it is?
The truth is….it’s all lies!

Searching for beauty amongst all the ugliness, where all you find is a barbed wire caress.

Forget about what you haven't done, and think about what you have done! Forget about what could have been, and think about what could be!Forget about what you can't do and think about what you can do!
Don't forget....WE HAVE THE POWER....Think about it!!!!

CONSUMERS OF THE WORLD UNITE....THEY HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT THEIR CHANGE!

WHILE SOME ARE LIVING THE DREAM, OTHERS ARE DYING IN THE NIGHTMARE!

Available @ ITunes.

“At the edge of a revolution / That’s exactly where we stand / And though we could seize the moment / We aspire to wear the brand / And we take our place in a profane state / With the common herd the beautiful and damned / I’ve had enough of this grey sky thinking / I’m coming in to land.” - TV SMITH

RAISED IN A PRISON

Click the above image to find out more about this gross miscarriage of Great British Justice. IT'S CRIMINAL! Gary was now been released from prison (March 2012) Justice will only be served when he has cleared his name!

DON'T JUST THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX / SMASH THE FUCKIN' BOX!
"Look at the outside. There's a new direction we've got to find." - Chelsea

If you hear anyone talking about getting a 3-D T.V tell ‘em to Fuck Off! and get a life instead. If flat screens, HD and plasma weren’t enough. As for those giant ipad things, for fucks sake…..WE DON’T NEED THIS SHIT!

Stay Free / Stay Strong / Keep On Keeping On!

All things connected / All things rejected / Looked to the left / Looked to the right / In the middle of the road / Waiting for the riot //

Whoever is in power; they need opposing. Only when there is no power for them to be in can the opposition cease!

Without hope and faith we are nothing!

"You drag yourself to work. Drug yourself to sleep. You're dead from the neck up, by the middle of the week." - Joe Scratch (Mercenary Clash)

PO-ATE-TREE KORNER.

Just like ducks being fed / All we get is stale bread.Just like cattle at the water / Fattened up and sent for slaughter.Just like the beasts at Noahs Zoo / We're kept in line two by two.Just like the clouds on a windy day / It's easy to get blown away.But just like a bird in a clear blue sky / I spread my wings and start to fly.

HIGH STREETI took a walk and what did I seeMiles and miles of misery.Down in the town they offer heavenFor all your pounds.Get back home open up the bagThen get the feeling you’ve been had.Just more shit you didn’t needConsumption feeds their fix for greed.

A Thought.........

For fucks sake....

10 Years on and we've been more than cheated, but I don't see Rock'n'Roll taking on the Government now!

If this story was true.....

...then I'd weigh a fucking ton!

In the beginning is the scream. We scream.

"When we write or when we read, it is easy to forget that the beginning is not the word, but the scream. Faced with the mutilation of human lives by capitalism, a scream of sadness, a scream of horror, a scream of anger, a scream of refusal: NO." - John Holloway

The Wall

"There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared; an adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real.........Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on." -Ursula Le Guin (In The Dispossessed)

‘Excuse me,’ they cry, ‘you can’t fight it; twice two is four! Nature doesn’t ask you about it; she’s not concerned with your wishes or with whether you like her laws or not. You must take her as she is, and consequently all her results as well. I mean to say, a wall is a wall, etc. But good God! What have the laws of nature and arithmetic to do with me, when for some reason I don’t like those laws or twice two? Naturally I shan’t break through the wall with my head, if I’m really not strong enough, but I wont be reconciled to it simply because it’s a stone wall and I haven’t enough strength to break it down. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (In Notes From Underground)

BRUTHA BLOGGERS WITH THEIR FINGERS ON THE BUTTON.

OLD SKOOL CUT 'N' PASTE

The Archmullah Of Canterbury

THE TWO HEADED BEAST

We're living in its legacy!

"I will shatter the power of the mighty, of the law and of property."

How did Gordon Brown run the country?

Just Like that!

THE DEVILS RIGHT HAND

Check out the state of Thatchers hand. This was the hand that signed the Poll Tax Bill and signed away workers rights and soldiers lives amongst other things. Now it is turning into a cloven hoof. (check out the picture with her next to Brown over on the main part of the blog, cos for some reason this picture has distorted and made her look even more like a monster than she was, if that's possible.)

'I can't believe this pain and misery are all in aid of a new society.' - Null&Void

ER!

That wasn't supposed to look like that. Ah! Fuck it never mind, call it art.

BROTHERS IN ARMS

Revolution is alive'n'kicking in 2007 Britain, courtesy of 'crackpot Cornish extremists' AKA The Cornish National Liberation Army who are taking their fight to the owners of second homes who come from out of the county. Dunno 'bout that gun though, only damage it looks like it could do is to themselves.

'I myself believe, perhaps on insufficient grounds, that the common man will win his fight sooner or later, but I want it to be sooner and not later - some time within the next hundred years, say and not some time within the nest ten thousand years.' - George Orwell (Homage to Catalonia,1938)

The powers that have for centuries been engaged in enslaving the masses have made a thorough study of their psychology. They know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy. And the more gorgeously the toy is dressed, the louder the colors, the more it will appeal to the million-headed child. - Emma Goldman (Anarchism and Other Essays)

'It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working-hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.' - George Orwell (1984)

'Like Anthony, she wished at times that she had not been presented with this sudden freedom of choice. It had felt safer, when they had been blinkered by sickening anxiety, walking the narrow path, unable to risk a glance to right or left. Now, they stood in a flat and featureless plain, older, wiser but somehow diminished.' - Margaret Drabble (Ice Age)

'The formula works. He stumbled on the first and last truth about the leisure society, and perhaps all societies. Crime and creativity go together, and always have done. The greater the sense of crime, the greater civic awareness and richer the civilisation. Nothing else binds a community together. It's a strange paradox.' - J.G Ballard (in Cocaine Nights)

The proletarian dictatorship...has today grown into a frightful despotism and a new imperialism, which lags behind the tyranny of Fascist states in nothing. - Rudolf Rocker(1973)

'Brothers and SistersI wanna see a sea of hands out there.Let me see a sea of hands.I want everybody to kick up some noise.I wanna hear some revolution out there, brothersI wanna hear a little revolution.Brothers and sisters, the time has comeFor each and every one of you to decideWhether you are gonna be the problem,Or whether you are gonna be the solution.You must choose, brothers, you must choose.It takes 5 seconds, 5 seconds of decision.Five seconds to realize that it's time to move.It's time to get down with it.Brothers, it's time to testify and I want to know,Are you ready to testify?Are you ready?I GIVE YOU A TESTIMONIAL, THE MC5 !!!!'

THOSE WHO CAME B4

What would Hardie and Pankhurst make of New Labour and The Spice Girls? Is this what they fought for?

WHY IS BRITAIN SUCH A HATED NATION?

THIS MAN IS A THIEF!

For the last 10 years he has been stealing our money with his red briefcase. Only in a STALINIST TOTALITARIAN DEMOCRACY could a man like this become Prime Minister.

Who the fuck are........

Watch this space and find out. You'll be sorry.

If yer into The Mob and Zounds this is a must have. Available from: diamondDCactus.com

'Welcome to the desert of the real'

29/7/29 - 6/3/07

MPFree!

Available from: http://www.carbonsiliconinc.com/music/mp3.aspx

ANOK

'Anarchism in all its guises is an assertion of human dignity and responsibility. It is not a programme for political change but an act of social self-determination.' - Colin Ward

'A line of poetry is a chance to get rid of all the filth that clings to this accursed language, as if put there by stockbrokers' hands, hands worn smooth by coin' - Hugo Ball (1916)

BUllSHit

'Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison' - Henry David Thoreau

THATCHAAAARGH !

'No amount of education will make women first-rate politicians. Can you see a women becoming a prime minister? I cannot imagine a greater calamity for these islands than to be put under the guidance of a woman in 10 Downing Street.' - Margot Asquith

4 REAL !

'People should realise what the level of violence is like in most peoples lives. It's sad that working class resentment is always turned on itself. Nobody seems to realise that'

'So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything'

THERE ARE NO ANSWERS, JUST MORE QUESTIONS.

THERE'S A METHOD IN MY MADNESS

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'Look away....it's nothing to do with us'

A celebration of eveyday life, the excitement of the mundane. No reality TV cameras here, this is 4 real. What you see is what you get. THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT.